Why was the culture of the early 2010s so shallow and anti intellectual?

[JakeWIlls92]

It seemed like back then most college students as well as wider society seemed more interested in reality shows, materialism, and partying.

Society also lost interest in sci fi and space exploration.




Why We Need More Space Adventures


The Death of the Space Opera? - Ricochet


I look back and find it appalling how vapid it was.


Why did society felt they had to choose between popularity and intelligence? Why did society stopped being encouraged to push themselves intellectually?


Why not be athletic, fun loving, and smart? Like those astronauts.






Is the crazy situation with have right now with the anti intellectualism of the SJWS and QAnon the endpoint of the reality show and shallow culture of the 2010s? Did the retirement of the Space Shuttle contribute?

 

[Oddball]

The "intellectuals" are anti-intellectual.

Pop culture is anti-intellectual.

The media is anti-intellectual.

"Science" is anti-intellectual.

 

[whitehall]

Is "materialism" anti-intellectual?

 

[xyz]

People weren't as openly hateful...

 

[ProfessorHawthorne]

Hmm.. I seemed to remember the start of the decline of intellectual thinking starting in the 1980s. MTV and Let's go the mall!

 

[xyz]

People were pretty hateful and violent in the 80s, now that I think about it.

 

[Quasar44]

xyz
No we were not
We just like cocaine , stocks and fast cars